[Lexicog] entry creation

Bill Poser billposer2 at GMAIL.COM
Tue May 29 16:04:00 UTC 2012


That's an interesting question. Off the top of my head, perhaps the null
symbol: ∅ (U+2205)?

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Lou Hohulin <lou_hohulin at sil.org> wrote:

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> Have any of you on this list created an entry form for a null/zero
> morpheme? If so, what did you use as a canonical form?
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> The third person, singular pronoun in Tuwali Ifugao clearly functions as a
> pronoun but has no evident form. The 'reference' of the zero pronoun can be
> cross-referenced by affixes, have either a subject or object grammatical
> relation with the verb and is in contrast to the use of other third person,
> singular pronouns. This information should be put within an entry, along
> with illustrative sentences so who on this list can give me suggestions as
> to what would be a logical, practical entry form.
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> Lou Hohulin
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